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2019

COPEC Rally2019

THURSDAY, MAY 9 MAY 9»12 11:00am Shakedown 6.45km BASED IN CONCEPCIÓN FRIDAY, MAY 10 (125.27KM) - 6:30am Exit service park, Talcahuano 1st EDITION 8:00am SS1 El Pinar 17.11km Organised by RallyMobil 9:33am SS2 El Puma 1 30.72km - 10:36am SS3 Espigado 1 22.26km ROUND 6, 2019 FIA WORLD RALLY 12:51pm Service/Tyre change, Talcahuano 40 minutes CHAMPIONSHIP 3:24pm SS4 El Puma 2 30.72km 4:27pm SS5 Espigado 2 22.26km timetable 6:40pm SS6 Conception-Bicentenario 2.20km 7:15pm Service, Talcahuano 45 minutes SATURDAY, MAY 11 (121.16KM) 63 6:30am Service/Tyre change, Talcahuano 15 minutes entries 8:08am SS7 Rio Lia 1 20.90km 9:08am SS8 Maria Las Cruces 1 23.09km TOTAL DISTANCE: 10:20am SS9 Pelun 1 16.59km 12:05pm Service/Tyre change, Talcahuano 40 minutes 1,245.68 km 2:08pm SS10 Rio Lia 2 20.90km including 304.81km 3:08pm SS11 Maria Las Cruces 2 23.09km divided into 16 special stages 4:20pm SS12 Pelun 2 16.59km 5:45pm Service/Tyre change 45 minutes SUNDAY, MAY 12 (58.38KM) 7:00am Service/Tyre change, Talcahuano 15 minutes 8:08am SS13 Bio Bio 1 12.52km 9:30am SS14 Lircay 18.06km 10:20am SS15 San Nicolas 15.28km 12:18pm SS16 Bio Bio 2 12.52km 1:15pm Finish Podium ceremony, Plaza de la 4:00pm Independencia, Concepción LOCAL TIME - SOURCE: WRC.COM - INFORMATION SUBJECT CHANGE TO THIS IS OBVIOUSLY Arnaud Rémy UNCHARTERED TERRITORY WRC Programme Manager, FOR EVERYBODY Michelin Motorsport

“As a new event, this is obviously unchartered territory for everybody. Some of the stages are held on forest tracks that have tree trunks and stones on the insides of many corners. They can also be very fast and bumpy in places. We don’t have much precise data about how our tyres are likely to perform here but we have placed the emphasis on safety by nominating the medium- and hard-compound versions of the LTX Force, which are more versatile. We are especially keen to see how ‘El Puma’ goes. It’s more than 30km in length and looks similar to a Rally GB stage. There could be a lot of ‘road-sweeping’ if the weather is dry but wear-rates aren’t expected to be very high.”

MICHELIN’S TYRES FOR THE 2019 RALLY CHILE

Michelin Michelin Latitude LTX Force Cross S80 (soft) and Michelin Latitude 3 Drivers can use up H4 M6 Cross H90 (hard) (hard) (medium) to 28 tyres from WRC an allocation of 28 WRC2 3 Drivers can use up to 26 tyres LTX Force M6s and from an allocation of 26 S80s 16 LTX Force H4s and 16 H90s Itinerary

Practically all the stages take place on privately-owned ground

The compact route visits three Chilean provinces: Concepción, Biobío and Arauco

The majority of the stages take place between the Pacific coast and the Biobío River

The service park is hosted by the Casino Marina del Sol

The stages

‘El Puma’ (SS2/4) is the longest stage of the rally (30.72km) and is described as Chile’s ‘Ouninpohja’!

A super-special (SS6) will be held in the Parque Bicentenario de Concepción

The stages take place in forests and tend to be wide and smooth, with cambered corners RALLY CHILE TRIVIA

Chile is the 32nd country to be visited by the since 1973

Santiago hosted a round of the FIA Formula E Championship in 2018 and 2019

The Rally has included competitive action in Chile several times, notably in the , in the north. The 2013 event finished in

Chile’s best known driver (24 F1 grands prix, Le Mans, Indy 500, etc.) contested the 2012 in a Michelin-equipped

CONCEPCION RALLY CHILE AND CHILE

Santiago was a venue for the start of the 1980 Chile is 4,300km ‘long’ from north to south, but only Codasur Rally’s Concentration Run 180km ‘wide’ on average Chilean territory is spread over three different continents: The RallyMobil Chilean Rally Championship has America, Oceania and Antarctica been running for 19 years Concepción is the capital of the province of the same The project of making the COPEC Rally Chile a name and is situated in the Biobío region WRC round was presented in 2016

The 2018 COPEC Rally Chile was observed by the FIA before its inclusion in the WRC calendar for a period of three years

Concepción (population: more than 1 million) is Chile’s second-biggest city, after Santiago

Talcahuano (population: 150,000) is situated 12km north of Concepción. It is Chile’s biggest fishing port and biggest military base

Talcahuano was rocked by an 8.8-magnitude earthquake in 2010 CITROEN-TOTAL WRT C3 WRC M-SPORT FORD WRT Ford Fiesta RS WRC

#1 Sébastien Ogier (FRA) #3 (FIN) Race starts 141 - Wins 46 - Podiums 75 Race starts 45 - Wins 0 - Podiums 1 (FRA) (FIN) Race starts 141 - Wins 46 - Podiums 75 Race starts 29 - Wins 0 - Podiums 0 6 Champions 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 #33 (GBR) Race starts 81 - Wins 1 - Podiums 9 #4 (FIN) Race starts 47 - Victoire 1 - Podiums 5 (GBR) (FIN) Race starts 125 - Wins 0 - Podiums 4 Race starts 47 - Victoire 1 - Podiums 5 #37 Lorenzo Bertelli (ITA) Race starts 59 - Wins 0 - Podiums 0 HYUNDAI SHELL MOBIS WRT Hyundai i20 Coupé WRC Simone Scattolin (ITA) #11 (BEL) Race starts 77 - Wins 0 - Podiums 0 Race starts 102 - Wins 11 - Podiums 37

Nicolas Gilsoul (BEL) Race starts 98 - Wins 11 - Podiums 37

#89 (NOR) Race starts 104 - Wins 3 - Podiums 23

Entry List Anders Jaeger (NOR) Race starts 48 - Wins 2 - Podiums 9

#19 Sébastien Loeb (FRA) Race starts 175 - Wins 79 - Podiums 117

Daniel Elena (MCO) Race starts 175 - Wins 79 - Podiums 117 9 Champions 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

TOYOTA GAZOO RACING WRT Yaris WRC

#5 (GBR) Race starts 96 - Wins 5 - Podiums 12

Sebastian Marshall (GBR) Race starts 52 - Wins 0 - Podiums 4

#8 Ott Tänak (EST) Race starts 97 - Wins 7 - Podiums 20

Martin Järveoja (EST) Race starts 68 - Wins 7 - Podiums 16

#10 Jari-Matti Latvala (FIN) Race starts 200 - Wins 18 - Podiums 65

Miikka Anttila (FIN) Race starts 211 - Wins 18 - Podiums 65

COMPLETE ENTRY LIST HERE wrC DRIVERS’ STANDINGS

Monte-Carlo Sweden Mexico Argentina Chile Portugal Italy Germany Turkey Great Britain Australia TOTAL 24/01 > 27/01 14/02 > 17/02 7/03 > 10/03 28/03 > 31/03 25/04 > 28/04 9/05 > 12/05 30/05 > 02/06 7/06 > 10/06 26/07 > 29/07 16/08 > 19/08 13/09 > 16/09 4/10 > 7/10 25/10 > 28/10 15/11 > 18/11

1 18 + 3 15 + 4 12 + 3 25 + 2 25 + 3 Thierry NEUVILLE (2) (3) (4) (1) (1) 110

2 25 + 4 0 + 2 25 + 5 18 + 1 15 + 5 Sébastien OGIER (1) (11) (1) (2) (3) 100

3 15 + 2 25 + 5 18 8 + 4 4 + 1 Ott TÄNAK (3) (1) (2) (6) (8) 82

4 8 + 5 8 10 + 4 2 + 5 12 Kris MEEKE (6) (6) (5) (9) (4) 54

5 0 10 + 3 15 15 0 Elfyn EVANS (R) (5) (3) (3) (R) 43

6 0 12 0 - 18 Andreas MIKKELSEN (R) (4) (R) (-) (2) 30

7 10 0 4 1 10 + 4 Jari-Matti LATVALA (5) (21) (8) (10) (5) 29

8 0 18 + 1 0 + 1 6 0 Esapekka LAPPI (R) (2) (13) (7) (R) 26

9 - - 2 + 2 12 8 + 2 (-) (-) (9) (4) (6) 26

10 12 6 - 4 - Sébastien LOEB (4) (7) (-) (8) (-) 22

11 0 + 1 0 0 10 + 3 6 Teemu SUNINEN (11) (23) (R) (5) (7) 20

12 - - 8 - - Benito GUERRA (-) (-) (6) (-) (-) 8

Manufacturers wrC2 pro drivers wrC2 drivers

1 Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT 157 pts 1 Lukasz PIENIAZEK 62 pts 1 Benito GUERRA 43 pts

2 58 pts 2 40 pts 2 Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT 120 pts 3 Mads OSTBERG 50 pts 3 Nicolas GRYAZIN 28 pts 3 Citroën Total WRT 117 pts 4 Kalle ROVANPERÄ 36 pts 4 Alberto HELLER 27 pts

4 M-Sport 78 pts 5 Eerik PIETARINEN 0 pts 5 Yoann BONATO 25 pts

THE 2019 WRC rEGULATIONS Start orders points Day 1 in 2019 Drivers’ championship order, then 1st, 25 points • 2nd, 18 points • 3rd 15 points • 4th, 12 points reverse order of overnight classification 5th, 10 points • 6th, 8 points • 7th, 6 points • 8th, 4 points 9th, 2 points • 10th, 1 point Manufacturers can nominate up to three Power Stage points with the two best-placed cars 1st, 5 points • 2nd, 4 points • 3rd, 3 points • 4th, 2 points to score Manufacturer points. 5th, 1 point. MICHELIN’S WRC RANGE WRC TYRE REGULATIONS 2019 season ✓✓The FIA has registered two different tyre manufactures for the 2019 WRC: Michelin and Pirelli

✓✓ manufacturers must re- ASPHALT TYRES: WINTRY gister the tyre brand they michelin pILOT SPORT ASPHALT: have chosen with the FIA Michelin ✓✓Only moulded tyres are au- Pilot Alpin thorised A4 ✓✓Tyres must be identifiable by a barcode and RFID chip

✓✓Re-cutting or otherwise mo- difying the tread pattern is not permitted

✓✓Only marked tyres are al-

H5 (hard compound) S6 (soft compound) lowed to be used on stages Size: 20/65-18 Size: 20/65-18 ✓✓Tyre pre-heating systems are Conditions: dry stages Conditions: wet, cold conditions non-studded prohibited

✓✓Cars may carry up to two spares

✓✓Tyres may only be inflated using air

✓✓Only one type of dry-weather asphalt tyre (construction + pattern) and two compound options are authorised for SS6 (super soft compound) FW3 (Full Wet) studded the season (a third com- Size: 20/65-18 Size: 18/65-18 pound option is allowed for Conditions: icy, frosty, damp, Conditions: showers, standing Size: 18/65-18 cold conditions water or heavy rain Conditions: ice and/or snow the Rallye Monte-Carlo) ✓✓Just one type of asphalt rain tyre is authorised

✓✓Only one type of gravel tyre (construction + tread GRAVEL TYRES: SNOW/ICE TYRE: pattern) and three com- michelin LTX FORCE michelin X-ICE pound options are autho- NORTH rised for the season (choice of two compounds per event)

✓✓A single type of snow/ice tyre (one compound only) to be fitted to 7x15-inch rims

✓✓A single ‘joker’ change is al- lowed per manufacturer in the course of the season

✓✓Tyre quotas per event for H4 (hard) M6 (medium) S6 (soft) Priority 1 drivers are calcu- X-Ice North 3 Size: 17/65-15 Size: 17/65-15 Size: 17/65-15 lated on the basis of four Conditions: rough, rocky, Conditions: smooth, Conditions: wet, Size: 15/65-15 abrasive surfaces loose surfaces, mud muddy, cold conditions Conditions: ice and/or snow tyres per tyre-change oppor- tunity plus four spares

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Special stage (SS) Service park Special stages (or just ‘stages’) take place The service park (or service area) is a on roads or tracks which are closed to place where work is permitted on the traffic and made secure for competitors cars, including tyre changes. The time and spectators. The length of these timed spent in a service park can vary tests – which can take place in daylight or from 15 to 45 minutes. at night – tend to vary from five to up to 80 kilometres. Regroup ‘Regroups’ are holding zones which Super-special enable the organisers to include a pause This is a short stage generally organised in the timetable, before a service halt, for Road book in a town centre, especially for example, or between two loops of stages. An official road book is given to all spectators. The intention is to Work on the cars is not permitted. competitors before the start of ‘recce’. take the sport to a wider audience It provides a detailed description of and to organise promotional events at Parc ferme the itinerary in the form of detailed the same time. The times recorded count This is the zone where competing cars illustrations of junctions, etc. A towards the official results. park up before the start of a rally and at competitor who doesn’t the end of each leg. Work on the cars is follow the road book may be Power Stage not permitted. disqualified. On every round of the WRC, the last stage of every rally is known as the Power Stage. Time controls (TC) Recce The drivers who post the five fastest times Crews must have their timecard stamped on this test are awarded five, four, three, Recce involves driving over the special by marshals before and after each stage, two and one bonus points respectively. stages at slow speed at the wheel of as well as into and out of service areas The stages are timed to the closest 1,000th road cars ahead of the rally, the aim and regroups. These mandatory passage of a second. being to take turn-by-turn pace notes. controls ensure that competitors Only two passes through each stage are comply with the official Road section authorised. Road sections are the itinerary that crews timetable. must follow to get to the different stages. Course cars (‘triple zero’, ‘double zero’ and ‘zero’) These roads are open to other users and Shakedown competitors must comply with local traffic A shakedown test is organised ahead of Course cars are safety cars which cover legislation at all times. Road sections all WRC events using a short section of a the stages before the competitors. Their must be covered in a time specified by the sample road. This test usually takes place mission is to warn spectators of the organisers. Penalties are incurred for late on the Thursday morning before the start. imminent of the cars. Course cars or early arrival at the next time control. Each priority driver must complete at least bear the numbers ‘000’, ‘00’ and ‘0’ on The penalty for late arrival is 10 seconds three passes. Should the car suffer damage their doors. They pass between 30 and per minute and the penalty for or break down during this test, crews can five minutes before the due time of the early arrival is one still take part in the event if repairs are first competitor. minute per minute. completed in time.